01.01.2017 Summary of 2016So, 2016 has been a great year to me. Interesting in many aspects, but most has turned out to be for the better. I’ve gotten to know a bunch of awesome new people, I spoken about open source, Qt and Linux in Europe and USA, I’ve helped hosting an open source conference in Gothenburg, I’ve learned so much more professionally and as a person, and I’ve really enjoyed myself the whole time. 2016 was the year that… … myself and Jürgen where Qt Champions for our work with the qmlbook. It feels really great getting recognition for this work. I really want to ...09.05.2011 VMware at Interop 2011 VMware at Interop 2011 VMware will be participating at Interop 2011, an industry leading IT conference and expo in Las Vegas, May 8-12. If you are attending, don't miss the VMware sessions and booth demos highlighted below. Sunday, May 8 8:35-9:00 AM - Location: South Seas BPublic, Cross-Cloud Platforms and the Evolution of On-Demand Computing Dave McCrory, Senior Architect, Cloud FoundryMonday, May 9, 201111:00 AM-11:45 AM - Location: South Seas BThe False Cloud DebateJames Watters, Sr. Manager, vCloud Solutions Wednesday, May 11, 201110:15 - 11:15 AM - Location: Breakers LSuppo...25.05.2009 Frank Karlitschek (karli): New Event DatabaseToday we are announcing our new event feature on the openDesktop.org websites.Every user is free to register new events e.g. a KDE conference in London, a developer meeting in Berlin or just a little barbecue in a backyard. Your event will be listed in the events database and other users can "join" the event.New participants can be invited to take part in events, friends get automatically informed via the friend newsfeed that some of their friends go to an event. The date, a short description and a location is enough to start a new event. Locations get directly displayed via an OpenStreetMap a...01.03.2016 [TORRENT] chakra-2016.02-ian-x86_64.isoChakra is a GNU/Linux distribution with an emphasis on KDE and Qt that focuses on simplicity from a technical standpoint and cutting-edge software, bringing the latest technologies to you, the user.15.02.2016 GSoC 2016 Project Survey, help me make Dolphin a better File Manager!Hey everyone!I am a first year computer science undergraduate from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. I am looking forward to working for KDE for the GSoC.My project idea is based on solving a problem all file managers have had for years - the lack of an easy to use file selection tool. My project aims to simplify selecting files from multiple directory trees.I am running a survey to gauge community feedback on my idea and to finalize the user interface and features list.The link to my idea proposal can be found here: https://goo.gl/3Y932RAnd the link to my survey can be found here: https://goo.gl...15.03.2016 3.0 Pre-alpha 3 is out!Today was an important day for the Krita project! We entered feature freeze! That means that from now on until the release of Krita 3.0, which is planned for April 27th, we won’t be working on adding new features, but we’ll be fixing bugs, fixing bugs and fixing more bugs! If you want to help us identify and triage bugs, read this article: “Ways to Help Krita: Bug Triaging“. It’s the first of what’s intended to be a series of reference articles on ways to help Krita grow and become better and better. Since Krita 3.0 is frozen, we know exactly which Kickstart...11.07.2016 Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7With Plasma 5.7 we promised improved multi-screen support. While we achieved that, some users are still experiencing issues. This is unfortunate and our users have all the reasons to be disappointed with us. We are working very hard to fix the issues which have been reported to us since the release. But there are many situations where users blame us for issues not under our control. With this blog post I want to describe some of the problems we got reported and explain them. Display hardware key not working In Bug 365147 a user reported that the notebook hardware key does not work. This is rat...12.08.2016 KDE Announces the First Public Release of Their Kirigami UI Framework for MobileWork on the Kirigami user interface framework started back in March 2016, when the KDE development team announced their plans for creating one of the most powerful and sophisticated tool that would allow application developers to build cross-platform Qt-based apps for mobile platforms.14.11.2016 Interview with Katharina Could you tell us something about yourself? My name is Katharina and I am from Germany. I study in Cologne and share a flat with my fiancé and three rabbits. Do you paint professionally, as a hobby artist, or both? Drawing is mainly a hobby for me, to express myself and getting my thoughts together. But from time to time I do a little freelance work, mostly fanart of games. What genre(s) do you work in? My works are mainly fantasy inspired, and I try to communicate through them. I like to address topics such as environmental protection and animal rights. For me, perfect fantasy drawings ...24.10.2017 Community goal: Modern and Global Text Input For Every UserA few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a talk on Input Methods in Plasma 5 at Akademy 2017 in lovely Almeria in Spain. If you were interest in my talk but were unable to attend, there's now video available courtesy of the Akademy conference team.